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Did you know that about 8 out of 10 job seekers won't get hired?

Not because they aren't smart. Not because they aren't qualified.

Because they keep doing what's easy and familiar instead of what actually works. And in the age of AI, where everyone is mass-applying with the same tools, "easy" has never been more crowded.

I'm going live to fix that.

This month I'm hosting a solo, no-holds-barred AMA. Just me, answering YOUR real job search questions. Bring the thing you're stuck on. The gap you can't explain. The strategy that isn't landing. I'll tell you the truth, even when it's not what you want to hear, because that's what gets you hired.

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If you're sick and tired of hearing that AI is coming for your job, I've got some news that might actually make you smile for once.

We've known this was coming all along, but now the data is starting to catch up with what a lot of us in the career coaching world have been saying for a while. AI might take jobs initially. Companies made big, splashy announcements about restructuring, about laying off tens of thousands of people because the bots were going to handle it from here. But here's the thing nobody wanted to admit out loud: you still need brains behind the bots.

Companies Are Quietly Hiring the Humans Back

Executives got a little too excited. They wiped out entire layers of human judgment and swapped them for AI, only to realize pretty quickly that just because you can automate something doesn't mean you should. And now? Companies are starting to strategically hire people back. Not to replace the AI, but to run it, to make sense of it, to squeeze the real value out of it.

So what does that mean for you as a job seeker? I believe we're about to see an uptick in hiring for people who know how to work alongside AI. But these companies aren’t going to hire the way that they used to.

As someone who's been doing this for 20 years, I can tell you exactly where these jobs are going to land: the quiet hiring pool. If you're not familiar with that term, quiet hiring is when a company already knows who they want. They're not posting the job publicly because they don't want 10,000 applicants flooding their inbox. And honestly, can you blame them? Right now, everyone and their cousin is using AI tools to blast their resume out to hundreds of jobs at once. Companies are drowning in noise.

Why LinkedIn Is Where the Real Opportunity Lives

So if they're not posting the job, how do they find you? They get on LinkedIn and use the AI-powered search tool that's now built into the platform. LinkedIn has rolled out an algorithm update driven by AI, and its whole job is to surface the right people before a role ever goes public.

Here's why that matters to you. There are 1.3 billion people on LinkedIn. If you want to be one of the people that algorithm actually finds, you have to show up. You have to post. You have to comment. Even with just five minutes a day, you're feeding LinkedIn exactly what it needs to start putting you in front of the right opportunities.

I want to be really clear about something. If you're spending your energy applying online right now, hoping to land one of these AI-driven roles, you're fighting the wrong battle. Those jobs aren't getting posted. The real game is feeding the algorithm five minutes a day so LinkedIn starts working for you instead of against you.

How I Help You Actually Do This

This is exactly why I built something called the LinkedIn Recruiter Attraction Plan, or LRAP for short. I've been doing this for my private coaching clients for over two and a half years now, and it works.

Here's how it comes together. I take your resume, your LinkedIn profile, and a handful of job descriptions you tell me you're actually interested in, the kind of roles you'd want once this hiring boom really kicks in. From there, I build you a completely customized report that breaks down exactly how to position yourself on LinkedIn, plus the next 20 things you should be posting to get noticed.

This is a game changer for anyone who's tired of shouting into the void with online applications and ready to actually be found. Summer is the perfect time to start. It's a little slower, a little quieter, which makes it the ideal window to build your presence before the hiring surge hits later this year. If you put in the work now, feeding the algorithm those five minutes a day, you'll be positioned to have recruiters coming to you instead of the other way around.

If that sounds like something you need right now, head over to workitdaily.com and check out the LinkedIn Recruiter Attraction Plan. I built this to be as personal and as practical as the coaching I give my private clients, and I'd love to build one for you too.

Go get ‘em!

J.T. O’Donnell

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